60NYT > Juan Garcia Abregotopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/juan_garcia_abrego/index.html?rss=1News about Juan Garcia Abrego, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usFri 09 Dec 2016 10:43:25 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comMexico Says Major Drug Suspect Escaped as U.S. Weighed Statushttp://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/02/world/mexico-says-major-drug-suspect-escaped-as-us-weighed-status.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA man accused of being the top money launderer for one of Mexico's major drug trafficking cartels escaped ''inexplicably'' from police custody this week, Mexican officials said Friday night, but the authorities failed to disclose the incident until...By SAM DILLONSun, 02 Mar 1997 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/02/world/mexico-says-major-drug-suspect-escaped-as-us-weighed-status.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMexican Writers Killed After Underworld Bookhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/07/world/mexican-writers-killed-after-underworld-book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIn a killing that has aroused suspicions about the involvement of drug traffickers or the police, assassins slipped into a middle-class home here early Wednesday and bludgeoned to death a married couple who had collaborated on a book about Mexico's...Sat, 07 Dec 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/07/world/mexican-writers-killed-after-underworld-book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMexican Aide's Millions: U.S. Charges Drug Linkhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/world/mexican-aide-s-millions-us-charges-drug-link.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIt was 1994, and Deputy Attorney General Mario Ruiz Massieu had only months left in office as Mexico's top narcotics enforcement official. He wanted to get money -- lots of money -- out of Mexico, so he turned his top aide into a cash courier. The...By SAM DILLONTue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/world/mexican-aide-s-millions-us-charges-drug-link.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssU.S. Jury Convicts Mexican on Drug Chargeshttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/17/world/us-jury-convicts-mexican-on-drug-charges.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Federal jury here today found Juan Garcia Abrego guilty of 22 counts of money laundering, drug possession and operating a criminal enterprise that prosecutors say smuggled more than 220,000 pounds of cocaine and 46,000 pounds of marijuana from...Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/17/world/us-jury-convicts-mexican-on-drug-charges.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAt Drug Trial, Mexican Suspect Faces Accuserhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/20/world/at-drug-trial-mexican-suspect-faces-accuser.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThey carried on an extraordinary 18-month correspondence, by phone, by letter and by messenger. But until Tuesday, Juan Garcia Abrego, the reputed Mexican drug boss, had never actually met Claude de la O, the F.B.I. agent who did him in. They...Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/20/world/at-drug-trial-mexican-suspect-faces-accuser.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssU.S. Starts Trial of Reputed Mexico Drug Bosshttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/17/world/us-starts-trial-of-reputed-mexico-drug-boss.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe reputed drug trafficker who is accused of having transformed Mexico's drug trade from a backwoods marijuana operation into a $4 billion cocaine industry went on trial here today, eight months after he was arrested in Mexico and expelled to the...By SAM DILLONTue, 17 Sep 1996 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/17/world/us-starts-trial-of-reputed-mexico-drug-boss.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssVICTORY OR DECEIT? -- A special report.;Bribes and Publicity Mark Fall of Mexican Drug Lordhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/world/victory-deceit-special-report-bribes-publicity-mark-fall-mexican-drug-lord.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssJuan Garcia Abrego was among the first Mexican drug lords to forge ties to the Cali cartel in Colombia, helping to transform Mexico's drug business from a backwoods marijuana operation into a $4-billion-a-year industry supplying Americans with tons...By SAM DILLONSun, 12 May 1996 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/world/victory-deceit-special-report-bribes-publicity-mark-fall-mexican-drug-lord.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMatamoros Journal;Canaries Sing in Mexico, but Uncle Juan Will Nothttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/09/world/matamoros-journal-canaries-sing-in-mexico-but-uncle-juan-will-not.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe sun is blazing on the street outside, but it is dark inside the Piedras Negras Restaurant, and it takes visitors a moment before they can clearly see the two bodyguards, wearing cowboy boots and beepers, slouched in chairs facing the entrance. ...By SAM DILLONFri, 09 Feb 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/09/world/matamoros-journal-canaries-sing-in-mexico-but-uncle-juan-will-not.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMexican Drug Gang's Reign of Bloodhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/world/mexican-drug-gang-s-reign-of-blood.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe drug trafficking suspect Juan Garcia Abrego and his men became so brazen, and the citizenry so terrorized, during a decade of bloodshed in this border town that a gunman said to be working for him once shot a municipal policeman dead on a...By SAM DILLONSun, 04 Feb 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/world/mexican-drug-gang-s-reign-of-blood.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMexican Disavows Link To a Drug Traffickerhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/26/opinion/l-mexican-disavows-link-to-a-drug-trafficker-097659.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: I have read with great indignation your Jan. 23 editorial "The Mexican Connection," which states that I was reputed to have had links with the drug trafficker Juan Garcia Abrego. I have not met him and I have never had any...Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/26/opinion/l-mexican-disavows-link-to-a-drug-trafficker-097659.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss